Search for Legume Taxa

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Taxon Subfamilysort ascending Common name(s) Growth Form Native Geographic Range No. Seed Accessions No. Living Accessions
Vachellia hebeclada subsp. tristis
Caesalpinioideae
  • weeping candle-pod acacia
  • candle thorn
  • Southern Africa
1 0
Vachellia karroo
Caesalpinioideae
  • sweet thorn
  • Karoo thorn
  • soetdoring (Afrikaans)
  • umunga (Zulu)
  • isinga (Ndebele)
  • Southern Africa
7 2
Vachellia kirkii
Caesalpinioideae
  • flood-plain acacia
  • vloedvlaktedoring (Afrikaans)
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
1 1
Vachellia luederitzii var. luederitzii
Caesalpinioideae
  • Kalahari sand acacia
  • mokgwelekgwele (Tswana)
  • Southern Africa
2 1
Vachellia nebrownii
Caesalpinioideae
  • water acacia
  • lerura (Tswana)
  • lerwana (Tswana)
small tree
shrub
  • Southern Africa
2 3
Vachellia nilotica
Caesalpinioideae
  • scented-pod acacia
  • Egyptian thorn
  • West Africa
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southwestern Asia
  • South Asia
1 1
Vachellia nilotica subsp. kraussiana
Caesalpinioideae
  • scented-pod acacia
  • mubayamhondoro (Shona)
  • isangawe (Ndebele)
  • Southern Africa
  • East Africa
5 1
Vachellia nilotica subsp. subalata
Caesalpinioideae
  • Scented-pod acacia
  • Egyptian thorn
  • East Africa
  • South Asia
2 1
Vachellia pennatula var. pennatula
Caesalpinioideae
  • feather acacia
  • algarrobo (Spanish)
  • Southern North America
  • Central America
  • Northern South America
5 2
Vachellia permixta
Caesalpinioideae
  • hairy acacia
  • slender thorn
  • slapdoring (Afrikaans)
  • moselaphala (Sotho)
shrub
  • Southern Africa
3 1
Vachellia reficiens
Caesalpinioideae
  • false umbrella thorn
  • vals haak-en-steek (Afrikaans)
tree
small tree
  • Northeastern Africa
1 1
Vachellia reficiens subsp. reficiens
Caesalpinioideae
  • false umbrella thorn
  • vals haak-en-steek (Afrikaans)
  • Southern Africa
1 0
Vachellia rehmanniana
Caesalpinioideae
  • silky acacia
  • sydoring (Afrikaans)
  • Iphucla (Ndebele)
  • Southern Africa
4 1
Vachellia rigidula
Caesalpinioideae
  • blackbrush acacia
  • chaparro prieto (Spanish)
  • Southern North America
8 3
Vachellia robusta
Caesalpinioideae
  • splendid acacia
  • enkeldoring (Afrikaans)
  • Southern Africa
  • East Africa
1 0
Vachellia schaffneri var. bravoensis
Caesalpinioideae
  • Schaffner acacia
  • twisted acacia
  • Southern North America
2 2
Vachellia schottii
Caesalpinioideae
  • Schott acacia
shrub
  • Southwestern North America
2 2
Vachellia seyal
Caesalpinioideae
  • shittimwood
  • thirty-thorn
  • whistling tree
  • white thorn
  • talh (Arabic)
  • West Africa
  • East Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southwestern Asia
1 0
Vachellia sieberiana
Caesalpinioideae
  • paperbark acacia
  • umbrella thorn
  • sandanduur (Wolof)
  • West Africa
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
4 1
Vachellia sieberiana var. woodii
Caesalpinioideae
  • paperbark acacia
  • umbrella thorn
  • mubayamhondoro (Shona)
  • Southern Africa
2 0
Vachellia stuhlmannii
Caesalpinioideae
  • vlei thorn
  • East Africa
  • Southern Africa
1 0
Vachellia tortilis
Caesalpinioideae
  • umbrella thorn
  • Southern Africa
  • East Africa
  • West Africa
  • Northern Africa
  • Southwestern Asia
2 0
Vachellia tortilis subsp. heteracantha
Caesalpinioideae
  • umbrella thorn
  • umsasane (Zulu)
  • mushu (Sotho)
  • moshu (Tswana)
  • Southern Africa
2 1
Vachellia tortilis subsp. raddiana
Caesalpinioideae
  • shittam
  • Northern Africa
3 0
Vachellia tortilis subsp. spirocarpa
Caesalpinioideae
  • umbrella thorn
  • Southern Africa
  • East Africa
1 1

Taxa Found: 1281